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In an unprecedented move, the Pentagon is trying to transfer convicted national security leaker Pvt. Chelsea Manning to a civilian prison so she can get treatment for her gender disorder, defense officials said.

A lawyer for convicted government secrets leaker Chelsea Manning says the Army private wants to get treatment for her gender disorder at the Fort Leavenworth military prison, not at a civilian federal lockup.

Pvt. Bradley Manning made waves when he released classified documents to Wikileaks. Then, after being sentenced to 35 years in prison, she captured everyone’s attention again after coming out as a transgender woman.

Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning, previously known as Bradley Manning, wants estrogen treatments to promote breast development and other female characteristics, which she’d be willing to pay for, while she’s incarcerated at Fort Leavenworth.

Bradley Manning is the first transgender military inmate to ask for hormone treatments, a request that could lead to a legal showdown over how - and if - the soldier convicted in the WikiLeaks case will be allowed to live as a female behind bars.

Bradley Manning plans to live as a woman named Chelsea and wants to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible, the soldier said Thursday, a day after being sentenced to 35 years in prison for sending classified material to WikiLeaks.

More than three years after his arrest in Iraq, Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is set to learn the price he’ll pay for leaking an unprecedented volume of classified information to a once-obscure, anti-secrecy website.

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